Here’s the REAL Reason Roger Goodell Has The NFL Standing for the Anthem Again

I think we all know that Roger Goodell’s change of heart on the anthem protests is purely strategic, and not at all motivated by patriotism.

Now rumors are circulating that Goodell frantically sent out the memo in response to Monday Night Football’s 17% dip from last week’s game.

Goodell saw the writing on the wall, and it’s hard to miss, because it came in the form of empty seats, unsold merchandise, and unprecedented financial losses, and it was all directly related to the protesting.

A sliver of a silver lining can be found for the NFL and ESPN in that last night’s game was up 8% in MM ratings from the last year’s Week 5 matchup between Tampa Bay and Carolina. With the help of strong ratings from those always-well-watched Dallas Cowboys, MNF is holding steady with last year’s hard-hit season with a 5% uptick.

Either way, on a full night on the Big 4, MNF looks poised to win the night — again. We’ll update with more ratings later. As a measure, last week’s Chiefs-Redskins game ended up with 11.9 million viewers and a 4.3 rating among adults 18-49. Last night’s game peaked with an 8.3 MM rating during the 9:45-10 PM slot, exactly when The Last Jedi trailer was shown. The Force clearly is strong with that one.

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Jorge Padro

Hey NFL you mad two grave mistakes. 1) There are more fans than players 2) We don’t need to watch your rigged games. Hopefully you will learn that it more important to the fans to be proud of being Americans than watch your overpaid babies act stupid live on TV.

when I saw black players tackle a white player and did pump fist in the air, a black power moved. David Carr stands up during American anthem, the four linemen didn’t block for David Carr because they believe he should of kneel instead of standing up for our flag. I was a Raider, Just because you are black doesn’t mean you not racist, their more white people kill than black people getting kill by police but however don’t blame the police. I stand up for our American anthem.

For the most part,the nfl is comprised of overpaid pussies and crybabies. The owners and coaching staff are the same,it’s all about money. Fine. With the stadiums half full,tv rating and revenue down,don’t come crying to us to come back. I have plenty of things to occupy what used to be football time.This is an easy conversion,and well worth it. Let them play to empty seats,and few viewers on the networks. And let espn take up the slack from cnn on political commentary. No one cares anymore. You dumbasses have thrown yourselves overboard,and the ship won’t stop.By By losers…

Way too late they offended too many americans and we are done being bullied by everyone. We are standing up and taking our rights back and keeping our freedoms back. The only racists are o their knees at football games. That crap just isnt going to fly anymore.

I am done with football. I won’t have anything to do with it ever again. This comes WAY too little too late. Everyone jokes it’s the National Felony League for a reason. I am beyond disgusted, and I am finished with this bs.

I think it’s to late, the players union completely ruined the NFL by politicizing the games to the point where they look fixed. The game is just not fun anymore and hasn’t been for years. The Soros backed union protests were the final draw for me.

We should keep boycotting the NFL until Goodell and the useful idiots have a press conference and apologize to the entire country for their disgraceful behavior in not honoring our flag, our national anthem, our police officers, our veterans and every American they have insulted these past 2 years!!!

If the NFL is doing this because they are infected with a patriotic stance and they know they were wrong, like the rest of us do then fine. If Goodell and the league are only doing this for financial reasons, which again most of us believe to be the overriding fact here, not believing that their ridiculous position was wrong……………..then the NFL are COWARDS……